Making Reconciliation Work: the Role of Parliaments.

Source: (2005) Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.

This handbook examines the issue of reconciliation in two contexts: transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy, and transitions from war to peace. Since the early 1970s, the world has witnessed a series of transitions to democracy -- predominantly in southern Europe in teh 1970s, in Latin America in the 1980s and in Africa and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. During the same period, the world has also seen many countries pass through periods of civil war. (excerpt)